Challenges to Authenticity of Anwar al-Awlaki #1

Challenge to the Authenticity of Anwar al-Awlaki #1
One of the friends of Anwar al-Awlaki, Fadel Soliman, believed that being put in prison turned Awlaki against the United States.

This is not true.
While the story has been published many times, and it seems believable, many reasons exist to doubt that Awlaki, a child of a ruling family, would be imprisoned in Yemen so arbitrarily.
The most important reason, is that Fadel Soliman ignores the lecture, Constants on the Path of Jihad which Awlaki published in 2005.
In this lecture, Anwar al-Awlaki calls for Jihad, and equates Jihad with fighting.
Awlaki also states, “whenever you see the word terrorism replace it with jihad.
This is a dramatic call for violence and fighting without specific justification. And this is a statement that most Muslims would ignore due to its lack of reason.
But clearly, Anwar al-Awlaki hated the United States, who at the time had thousands of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Anwar al-Awlaki was calling for attacks on United States Personnel, well before his alleged Yemen imprisonment in 2006.